Kansas towns that Brightspeed of Kansas serves include Junction City, Burlington, Hillsboro, Sterling and Garnett.
It was owned by Sprint Nextel until 2006 when it was spun off into Embarq.
CenturyTel acquired Embarq in 2009, at which point United Telephone of Kansas began doing business as CenturyLink.
CenturyLink was renamed Lumen Technologies in 2020.
On August 3, 2021, Lumen announced its sale of its local telephone assets in 20 states to Apollo Global Management, including Kansas.